{"id":32,"date":"2007-06-05T21:16:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T02:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=32"},"modified":"2019-09-04T19:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T00:57:41","slug":"the-challenge-of-keeping-an-online-dating-website-scammer-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"The challenge of keeping an online dating website scammer free."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right;\"><div style=\"margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px\";><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3319935785736004\";\ngoogle_alternate_color = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 200;\ngoogle_ad_height = 200;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"200x200_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"cccccc\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"cc0000\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"ffffff\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div><\/div><p>For a while I thought only the small internet dating site such as mine were targeted by Nigerian scammers.\u00c2\u00a0 But I soon realized that all websites, not just online dating sites were afflicted with an element of scammers.\u00c2\u00a0 Well how do I know you ask, I tell you how I found out.<\/p>\n<p>I have been checking every IP address of new members for origin of country.\u00c2\u00a0 Any IP from Nigeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Ukraine, I block them from joining.\u00c2\u00a0 I must say that I have done a pretty good job, because lately the scammers have been pleading to join my dating site, sending me emails to approve them.\u00c2\u00a0 My logical conclusion is that nobody will plead to be accepted on a dating site when there are so many choices of online dating websites.\u00c2\u00a0 Getting to my point, sometime ago I read on a dating website administrator\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s forum that a site owner had discovered that the scammers was using their yahoo email password on the dating site.\u00c2\u00a0 She got into the idiot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s yahoo account and changed his password.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it must have been the same idiot Nigerian criminal who joined my personals site.\u00c2\u00a0 I traced the source IP to an ISP in Nigeria, tried the password on the yahoo site and I was in.\u00c2\u00a0 The first thing I did was to change the password, then I monitored the emails for the next few days. This jerk was a member on every dating and social networking site I can think of. There were emails coming in from his Myspace account, OkCupid, facebook, and many more.\u00c2\u00a0 The jerk even sent an email to his own account pleading \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Please return my password to me\u00e2\u20ac?.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while I thought only the small internet dating site such as mine were targeted by Nigerian scammers.\u00c2\u00a0 But I soon realized that all websites, not just online dating sites were afflicted with an element of scammers.\u00c2\u00a0 Well how&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=32\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}